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Building a Database on S3

Summary: Evaluates Amazon S3 as a storage substrate for general-purpose databases with small objects and frequent updates. Presents read/write/commit protocols and analyzes cost, performance, and consistency tradeoffs for S3 as a DB backend. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4054
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2008
Pagerank
0.00015176173
Overall Rank
662 | 95.46%
DOI
10.1145/1376616.1376645

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{brantner_sigmod08,
        title = {{Building a Database on S3}},
        author = {Brantner, Matthias and Florescu, Daniela and Graf, David and Kossmann, Donald and Kraska, Tim},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376645},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376645},
        year = {2008}
}

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520 Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores 2020 VLDB 0.00017136828
604 Socrates: The New SQL Server in the Cloud 2019 SIGMOD 0.0001584774
641 Relational Cloud: A Database-as-a-Service for the Cloud 2011 CIDR 0.00015400863
741 Zephyr: Live Migration in Shared Nothing Databases for Elastic Cloud Platforms 2011 SIGMOD 0.00014442062
976 The End of Slow Networks: It's Time for a Redesign 2016 VLDB 0.00012864533
1,000 Unbundling Transaction Services in the Cloud 2009 CIDR 0.000127281
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1,187 Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations 2014 VLDB 0.00011760199
1,342 Designing Distributed Tree-based Index Structures for Fast RDMA-capable Networks 2019 SIGMOD 0.00011098147
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1,348 An Evaluation of Alternative Architectures for Transaction Processing in the Cloud 2010 SIGMOD 0.00011071078
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1,482 Cloudburst: Stateful Functions-as-a-Service 2020 VLDB 0.00010642079
1,637 On the Design and Scalability of Distributed Shared-Data Databases 2015 SIGMOD 0.0001015538
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1,969 PIQL: Success-Tolerant Query Processing in the Cloud 2012 VLDB 9.3749819e-05
2,411 Towards Elastic Transactional Cloud Storage with Range Query Support 2010 VLDB 8.6126258e-05
2,903 Deuteronomy: Transaction Support for Cloud Data 2011 CIDR 7.9761235e-05
3,293 Modular Order-Preserving Encryption, Revisited 2015 SIGMOD 7.5517336e-05
4,103 Exploiting Cloud Object Storage for High-Performance Analytics 2023 VLDB 6.8993506e-05
4,457 Analyzing and Comparing Lakehouse Storage Systems 2023 CIDR 6.6913393e-05
5,180 Segment-Based Recovery: Write-ahead logging revisited 2009 VLDB 6.3293877e-05
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5,974 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 6.0230488e-05
6,076 Self-Organizing Data Containers 2022 CIDR 5.9852895e-05
6,509 Scalable Transactions across Heterogeneous NoSQL Key-Value Data Stores 2013 VLDB 5.8572742e-05
7,607 XQuery Reloaded 2009 VLDB 5.5845947e-05
8,431 Big Data and Cloud Computing: New Wine or just New Bottles? 2010 VLDB 5.4259744e-05
8,919 MirrorKV: An Efficient Key-Value Store on Hybrid Cloud Storage with Balanced Performance of Compaction and Querying 2023 SIGMOD 5.3483178e-05
9,578 Partiqle: An Elastic SQL Engine over Key-Value Stores 2012 SIGMOD 5.2528121e-05
10,321 Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS 2026 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
19 A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels 1995 SIGMOD 0.00058720861
4,127 The Performance of Three Database Storage Structures for Managing Large Objects 1992 SIGMOD 6.8852658e-05
5,114 Architectures and Algorithms for Internet-Scale (p2p) Data Management 2004 VLDB 6.358317e-05
5,115 Towards Effective and Efficient Free Space Management 1996 SIGMOD 6.358317e-05
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